Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.

You are special child.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

Before they read words, children are reading pictures.

A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

Don't explain, enjoy.