We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.