True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

The things you struggle with today are the things you choose to struggle with.Because you believe that what you want to accomplish, is worth struggling for.

He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.

Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.