Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Reality is the completion of experience.

I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Replace what you don't know about the future with what you do know about God!

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

I should be the face of Samuel Smith Beer. That'd be great.