Moliere

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.