At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone.

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.