Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.