I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

A step to the left can change your world.

Thomas Murray

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Juliet Stevenson

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Robert Ballard

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

C. W. Ceran

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward George BulwerLytton

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

Ellen Ochoa

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

Jodi Picoult

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Robert Hass

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Bob Barr

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

Mikhail Bakunin