Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

we were never a match

The strong overcome several trials.The determined overcome numerous trials.The resilient overcome many trials.The extraordinary overcome countless trials.

There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.

Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!