The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

There is still peace left in the world, and only those with beauty in their soul, care enough to be it.

My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes.

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words.

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.