For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.

Every new journey transforms the traveler.

Pure is honourable.Honourable is right.Right is lovely.Lovely is admirable.Admirable is excellent.Excellent is prasie worthy.Praise worthy is peace.

He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Stopping me? That's impossible. There's not anything that can really stop me.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.