Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.