I crave stillness, And yet I fear the momentStillness turns into boredom, And the moment boredomTurns into loneliness.

Love speaks toThe soulIn a languageThe brainCan’t comprehend.

In fact she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.

The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

Percy grunted. ‘Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo’s powers.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.