A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).

Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.

Her eyes Her bodyHer heart Makes me believe In magic In destiny In myself

Kyle, you are a mellow dude...You can’t be with an agitator. And that’s what she is. An agitator. She’s a Jackson Pollock and you’re a Thomas Kinkade.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Running gives me confidence.