What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. I have admired my father all of my life, and I love him with all my heart.

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

We need practice solving problems.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.