“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion.

A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do… Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can’t grow and be better.

You’re always welcome if you find someone better than me.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.

My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.