Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Let our scars fall in love.

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

My friend Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.