Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

Don't face the day until you've faced God.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.