What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

I'm not in love, The love is within me!

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.