Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Let go of what you can no longer keep. Protect what's still worth keeping. Believe in love most of all.

In its purest form, a union becomes part of our very essence. And when that bond is broken, our essence is forever changed.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

I'm not a complicated person.

...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.