...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.

And just in case you need reminding, you are beautiful

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Prepare ye the way of the Lord.

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.