Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Live as though life was created for you.