In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer.

My toe as a lethal weapon!

If I had many who oppose me, it means I have stood for something sacred that only my heart knows.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

Your poetry is lonely. And yet, you write to feel less alone

Mother nature pushes you back the faster you go, same way people will full you back, the faster you succeed.

There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?