I think thinking for yourself is such a hard thing to do, because you just want to fit in in high school. So being comfortable with who you are is such a massive thing for a lot of people.

I think that sometimes people don't think before they speak. And even a small comment can make or break someone's day.

Ask questions if you really want to know the answers.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

I think that social media can be used for good and for bad.

I think that we definitely have opportunities to share our love and support with other people.

Whatever circumstance it is, if you always do your best, then you can't beat yourself up, basically.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.

There are men who dig for gold

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.

My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'