A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.

Judgment and decision making are often considered together.

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.