Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?I know it can.(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.