It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

All Poets are mad.

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

We must dare to be true to ourselves – to see ourselves as we really are.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.