It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.