"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death."

"When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'"

"I understand life isn't fair, but why couldn't it just once be unfair in my favor?"

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best thing."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."