The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize.