Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands.

Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands.

A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.