Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.

Paltry supply with capable means is one face of iniquity.

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

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This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know.

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.