You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

When we turned to God, He will heal us, then we shall be happy.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked.A Filler Crisp, " Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will live forever in people’s hearts.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

I do come from a strong family.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.