One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.
“The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.”
“I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.”