Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Anyone one loves is a potential enemy.

We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph.

And now that I've been exposed to this feeling, perfect mouth against perfect mouth, the natural order of things, I wonder why people don't kiss all day, every day. How does anything ever get done?

I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

Hawaii is absolutely beautiful.