Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

Lord of lords!

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care.

I think, more importantly, it's about who is your core team? Who are the people around you that are going to fight for you and make sure that's all protected?

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.