Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.