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.

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.