To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

I'm in love. So kill me.

Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

I get to meet different directors and different people.

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.