Silence, beautiful voice.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.