“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”

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.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

If you’re looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

What is done is done for the love of it – or not really done at all.

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father s. He’s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world

I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.