And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.

By simply and profoundly giving love to yourself everyday in every way you are saying to the Universe you are worthy of attaining any dream, vision or goal. Feel worthy of it.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

Pretty really comes from inner confidence; it's when you feel good about yourself.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'