You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Atlantis will rise again.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

What does not change is the will to change

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct

The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.