In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.

Life is in the living. Love is in the giving.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

The best way to help yourself is to help someone else.

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.