We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

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

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.