When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. – Robert Bly
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. – Robert Bly
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker