The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.