I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

I can't retire from life. I love life too much and I cannot wait to start the day.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.