Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?

When learning for self-growth, a problem many people have is that they memorize what they learn, but do not always think, apply, adapt and repeat what they learn

Morning brings refreshing thoughts.The first thought in the morning, 'Thank God' for the gift of a new day and wonders.

Godliness with contentment is rare.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

Everything I do is for my people.

I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.