“Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.”

“Harmony is always when I look around me
And your smile I see
I can feel it surrounds me
A miracle I find in your company.”

“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.”

“If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.”

“When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.”

“I saw the mayor of New York said today, 'We're tough. We can do it.' Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it's your daughter that's kidnapped at school by a terrorist?”

“At dawn, a railwaywoman
On a country platform whirls on the end of a chain
An irrelevant key, while a young guard makes to wipe
A crumb from her lapel; and see, she smiles
A permissory smile you take in from your corner seat:
A cameo of unrehearsed perfection.”

“And see! she stirs!
She starts,—she moves,—she seems to feel
The thrill of life along her keel,
And, spurning with her foot the ground,
With one exulting, joyous bound,
She leaps into the ocean's arms!”

“But by that time you do not much care whether she smiles or frowns. Why could she not have smiled when her smiles would have filled you with ecstasy? Everything comes too late in this world.”

“The songs are in your eyes.
I see them when you smile.”