Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.