And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.-Calvin

Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает.

You know home isn’t really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

I was seeing the world, and it turned out to be a lonely place.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.