You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

Every journey begins with a single step.

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.