It shatters the game, exposing the players

I've known you forever, and you are only just remembering me.

Inhaling, I am ignited with the first breath of freedom

He puts his arm around me, the lights dancing on his dark skin constantly skipping across to mine, planting a myriad of emotions into each pore as if preparing my heart for tilling.

Look into my eyes and deny me.

she's so caught up she's unaware she's no longer the prisoner here, I am

In truth the issue is that we are so powerful what we believe becomes our reality.

I do so love the art of severing boundaries

He's a contradiction and that's why he's so perfect.

I'm the riddle you have yet to solve

in my darkest hour she answered my call without resentment or guilt, without hesitation

Because of language, the thoughts we record today might reach into the future to influence the thinking of people not yet born.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.