Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.