There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

Let our scars fall in love.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

I'm dating a girl who's pretty levelheaded. She's a nurse. She's a real, normal girl. Which is what I need because my life isn't normal.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.