They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Compliment three people every day.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.