Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.

A societies needs determines their ethics

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

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.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Every journey begins with a single step.