People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.