Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain.

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.

Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there.

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

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

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.