It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
In the end, there is no end.
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.
If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.
The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.