But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink

Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be

You can elevate yourself to higher self by devotion to God.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

Women can do nothing that has permanence.