“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

What we live by we die by.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

I always entertain great hopes.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time – give it, give it all, give it now.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Life is like a confused teacher. First she gives the test and then teaches the lesson.

You have to take power. No one gives it.