Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

Our family is a circle of strength and love...Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.