droppedand fallingfrom suchheightsfor solongthatmaybeI will haveenough timeto learnflying

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.

I have brushed my teeth.This day and I are even.

I broke your heart.Now barefoot I treadon shards.

Peace is not the absence of chaos or conflict, but rather finding yourself in the midst of that chaos and remaining calm in your heart.

And by the way, if she constantly leaving you messages that she's in another castle...she's just not that into you. Move on.

When I realized that my body had been damaged from adverse environmental exposures, I decided to use it for medical research and to develop the recovery techniques.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.