If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.