Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every treeand into my opened hearta little drop ran down.

[D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and He will be revealed in its pages.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

Like chaos in a glass cage.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.