Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.