A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.

It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so valuable in today's modern age.

Don't dwell too long on the past, forgive and let it go. Too many hours have been wasted on old regrets and sorrow.

Love cannot be contained, love is destined to transcend and change.

What are we before love? But thoughts floating upon a sea. Searching for a shore to explore, to gaze into infinity.

You played my heart as it was meant to be played, a little, then all at once.

When we're together, I'm a leaf floating on a pond. Weightlessly in love.

Every piece of you is a living library of creation. The deeper I look, the more I see.

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed.

I hear you speak in songs of love, written for me only. And though I wander far too much, the path is rarely lonely.

Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely.

Sometimes, I love to fight with you…Because, we end up loving each other more.

People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world.

Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.

I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn’t as big as his! I don’t know what it is with guns, but once you’ve got your hand on one, you think you’re one of the untouchables.

A woman's life is the sum of her choices.

This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.

Our gifts to this world, and this realm's gifts to us can come in many ways, often as we least expect them but they come especially when we are open to give, open to receive.

Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

Women are wired to do more and different things because of their lack of ego