It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

For a short burst of time, we completely belong to each other, absorbed by the needs of our physicality, glued together by the passion of our lips.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep during the day or at night.