To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.
Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.
The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.
Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize.
Anyone who doesn’t love animals has a serious hole in the heart.
There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.
The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.
Orwell couldn’t see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.
When you look at a person who’s different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.
Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?
You can’t really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that’s probably true of any work of art – a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is ‘real,’ but everything matters.
Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can’t be overcome.
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.