“The test is always how we treat the poor.”

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.

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

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

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.