The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it.

he placed his handson my mindbefore reachingfor my waistmy hipsor my lipshe didn't call mebeautiful firsthe called meexquisite - how he touches me

stayi whisperedas youshut the door behind you

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference

despite knowingthey won’t be here for longthey still choose to livetheir brightest lives- sunflowers

a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you

isn't it such a tragic thing when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't

i am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here with expectationsand try to make a vacation out of me

i am watersoft enoughto offer lifetough enoughto drown it away

for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.