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.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

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.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I supported Donald Trump.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.