Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

Every day there are opportunities for me, and I take them.

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's anathema to what people say that America stands for.

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.