The most beautiful people are all in the library.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.