I say the world would be a boring place if we all had the same abilities.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through..

So many times in life we go through things and we don’t realize that our children are going through them too. We think that they are in their own world, you know, and that they won’t notice these things. But they do and I think it’s just great that you’re pointing these things out.

A poem should not mean but be.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back. No manuscripts to store away. No paintings to show on walls. No poems to be printed, Nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of, but applaud when someone accumulates more money than they can spend? They’re both hoarders.

The mistakes are a fact of life, it is the response to the error that counts.

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.