Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.

Right thinking plus right action equals right results." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.

Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.

I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.