"Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry"

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"

"Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction"

"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms"

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything"