“Where one cannot compete, one must aspire.”

“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.”

“This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.”

“But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.”

“Knowledge is the greatest power and it is something no one can see. It cannot be stolen or broken, No one can take it from you.”

“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day what he cannot define. It is feeling that is first. What one cannot help but sense in good poetry is a sense of the whole language stirring toward richer possibilities than one could have foreseen.”