You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.