I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life..

That's where the money is, on the road..

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear..

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all ar….

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all..

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for..

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make ….

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself..

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard..

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die..

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way..