Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.

His mouth descended on hers in a fierce kiss.He seized, he captured.He dominated.And she loved every second of it.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

I feel like New Zealand's a bit of an unchartered territory for me in a way.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.