Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

There's a shortage in this world of I believe in you. So say love...you never know who might need it.

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally.