Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.