Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.

Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.

Each of us is an artist capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

I listen to music constantly while writing.