"The reason why we're here is to be able to be useful, to be able to help others, to be able to love, to be able to have compassion."

"The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth."

"We love the things we love for what they are."

"Thinking is not to be done by proxy."

"A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."