I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.

That said the conspirators:Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.