Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

Chester Bennington

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Jonathan Safran Foer

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

E. O. Wilson

Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Gisele Bundchen

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

Clifford D. Simak

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.

Arnold Beisser

Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow

Larry Michael Dredla

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Honore de Balzac

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe