I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.

The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians also believe that Germans understand them best because they've been through a big war and know what humiliation means.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.