The poetry is myself.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

That's so cute! They have birdbaths in the church!

As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

[Bill Clinton] approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.