How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …

Having no curiosity can be a dangerous thing..

The one thing no one can ever take from you is your education…

Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...

Reading doesn't put you to sleep... it makes you dream...

God's beauty is better by far than anything that comes out of a jar..

A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered…

Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen...

To preserve the past is to save the future...

We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak...

We must believe there are places where tranquility still exists and nature is given back her power to speak

I am grateful in life and online. My gratitude raises my vibration and enhances my joy.

With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Catch the beauty of the moment!

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

I certainly have more enthusiasm when I'm dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.