From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy.

Any leadership that disempowers its followers cannot be entrusted to lead.

His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love.

Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?

With Uhuru [Kenyatta] running against [Mwai] Kibaki, the Kikuyus will be divided for sure.