Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

We ought to celebrate the sacredness of life.

The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.