Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.