Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.