Our worst can become our best if mistakes are gathered like twigs of a bird's nest, giving one true foundation, a spiritual home to build their life upon.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

I am delighted to experience the beauty of life.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Nothing happens unless something moves.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.