Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

National honor is national property of the highest value.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them