Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

Death is nothing other than a different way of being with an enhanced and broadened consciousness, which is everywhere at once because it is no longer tied to a body.

Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.