That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

I want to spend my life helping other reach their God Given Dreams!

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.

Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

I like stories that affect families.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.