Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

All great achievements require time.