Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.

I think there is a scientific approach to it and there is a political approach to it and an economical approach to it. All of this combined, we might find a solution.