The future is in good hands.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.