When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

It's snowing still, " said Eeyore gloomily."So it is.""And freezing.""Is it?""Yes, " said Eeyore. "However, " he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

Real woman should be capricious.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.

Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.