The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

The treacheries of ambition never cease.

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity.

So, I'm no longer holding myself hostage to less than what I deserve. It's an inward thing first. It's always an inward thing first.

I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.

Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

Everything is possible. If you want something, give something.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

As we are spiritually awake and alert we see His hand across the world and we see His hand in our own personal lives.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.