If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it is from a single word that books are made.

You see, if we have no hope, we have nothing

Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.

I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself apart. I wanted to escape from my own skin.

Growth is not an ancient gift but how you face your fear.

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, runners believed they didn't have to do anything but run

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.