The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

Discipline yourself so others won't have to.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

Competition for status is a zero sum game

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.