Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you

Crying is good for the soul, or so they say.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith

I don't really take myself very seriously.

I think women's ears are a lot more sensitive. Men are going to follow whatever appeals to women.

I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

All babies look like me. But then, I look like all babies.