Poverty is the worst form of violence.

If you work day-and-night, you may lose the sense of time.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

He who hath many friends hath none.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.