I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.

Don't follow the crowd until you are sure you want to be where they're going.

I am insatiable - aim to sate me but never dull my flames of desire that are fuelled by the existence of you.

Memories don’t fade, it is just we who start overlooking the things once done or said.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.

Let's be friends based on mutual hate.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color and culture have a lot to do with that.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.