These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Where there is love there is life.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.