If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

There is still peace left in the world, and only those with beauty in their soul, care enough to be it.

My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes.

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

When you argue with someone, you always argue at the level of the person with the lowest level of intelligence. You never argue up.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.