Love is always saying you're sorry.

True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving.

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Everything I am familiar with is gone.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.