We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

The only way for God to conquer the world is through the human flesh and through His spirit

Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Hearts of oak are our ships Hearts of oak are our men.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

One by one, the others all nodded their heads again, as if we were talking about having a spring picnic instead of going up against the deadliest woman in Ashland and all of her men.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.