Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious.
There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there’s no end to it.
HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator’s magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.
HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.
Laughter isn’t even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
Not everyone’s life is what they make it. Some people’s life is what other people make it.
Only dead people need loud music, you know.
I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
Being happy is not the only happiness.
Helped are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.