A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Everybody is worth everything.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

Live life as if it were created just for you.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.