I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader.

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!

God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

Jesus Christ, the holy Saviour is the Great Physician of Souls.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.