Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

Explore fully the sacred-moment.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Love is always the same but people change.

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!