Carl Sandburg

"When you are old, you realize all you ever wanted was to understand."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot explain."

"I am my own mirror, judging no one but myself."

"Time is a thief that steals our youth but gives us wisdom."

"The people are the real guardians of freedom."

"I have tasted life and found it good."

"A man learns by sailing, not by sitting in his house."

"The greatest teacher is failure."

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

"I have sung the songs of working men and women."

"I have always been between two worlds - the world of practical things and the world of dreams and imagination."

"The people, yes - they are the foundation of all things."

"Sleet and snow, they come and go; what remains is the memory of winter's touch."

"A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

"The prairie waits for no one, yet it welcomes all who come with open hearts."

"Newspapers are the literature of the common man, the voice of the streets."

"I have sung of shadows and light, of the ordinary made extraordinary."

"To understand America, you must walk its roads and listen to its people."

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest minds."

"The worker's hands build the world, yet the world often forgets their names."

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."

"I sing the body electric - the vitality within us all."

"Democracy dies when citizens stop asking questions."

"The fog comes on little cat feet, quiet and beautiful."

"To be truly free, one must first free oneself from fear."

"Words are the bridges between isolated souls."

"A man is as good as his word, no more and no less."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"In the midst of chaos, there is opportunity for creation."

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."