In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

The pace of a leader determines the pace of his follower.

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

You always want your friends to like who you're seeing.

Consultancy can be too short; or too long.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.

Ive been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldnt say anything, literally.