I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

When life gives you a passport dream, order for a reprint. Try again till you have the bigger image. Be passionate you become the real you!

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.

Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different dimensional planes.

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

Imitation can be commercial suicide.