Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Our ability to study is not a discipline but a gift”.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

It's a good thing I've got to live with you two or I'd be putting this on YouTube later. And mocking you

It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.