Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

For Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.