Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

He said that things could be different in Little Rock, if only the right people could find their voice. I wanted to be on of those people.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.

I'd rather play a maid than be one.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress.