"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

"When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility."

"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."

"There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government."

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."