I do think that all of us think in poems.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Time is time. You cannot replay time.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself

Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it