Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Success is having consistent work habits.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

I have found awareness to be one of the most rewarding, and yet one of the most painful journeys one can embark on.

Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.

I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I was a kid, I got cocky and didn't want to take lessons.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.