poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.

My dreams are all of fire – mother says dreams usually go by opposites, so does that mean the world will end in ice?

'Cause I's wicked - I is. I's mighty wicked anyhow I can't help it.

Spreading the word about real issues is still helping. Just being conscious of helping animals every day will help guide you to make beneficial decisions for animals.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

Innovation is significant positive change.

To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."