In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used that's great.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.

Every person has only so much attention to give and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is in my view as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

Once you start saying 'Let's talk political my own politics my own aspirations ' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time but it can become confusing and frustrating and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could but it takes devotion and talent.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point life itself takes over again.

A theology should be like poetry which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

You know writing is really difficult and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others so much and I envy it.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows it flowers wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.