At our best, we are all teachers

There is no place where God is not.

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

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.

Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.