in a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower.thornless. unwithering. abundant in seeds

...trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

The process of attentive listening makes the other person feel important, valued, and heard. For Nick, listening was, and still is, love. I've never forgotten that precious moment—and the lesson!

One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

You have to like yourself before you can do anything!

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.