Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

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.

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.