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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."

"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."

"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."

"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."

"I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry."
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