Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

Keep your focus laser-locked on what you want to create in your life.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

My administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess.

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.