“There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.”

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

We love the things we love for what they are.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

You may just be my new beginning or the absolute end of me.

The older you get the more you appreciate being home doing absolutely nothing.

A quiet mind in a state of peace can do absolutely everything.

You are your own responsibility. You belong to absolutely no one else.

Give yourself space to do absolutely nothing and just acknowledge your inner strength.

Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.