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

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses.