The scent of rain on a sultry spring evening is always an indulgence.

Only you can make yourself strong. Nobody else can do it for you.

I feel like a stranger in my own world.

Writing the next lines and words of your life is something only you can do. We write our own stories.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.

Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

Nothing wrong with making money.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

I got a lot of positive people around me.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.