“Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.”

“Most important thing in life is family,Without them you are nothing.Whatever you do will be worth nothing,If there is no one to appreciate it.”

“There’s nothing wrong with having a little faith in something the world doesn’t understand yet.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; our life stories get written by our actions.”

“SENSEDo you make decisions based on what makes sense in your mind or what you sense in your heart?”

“If you get lost, change your thoughts to find the way.”

“Every moment we are creating our new selves and our new world with our thoughts, actions, and imaginations.”

“Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.”

“If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.”

“Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.”

“Although I’ve written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet…and I remain in awe of people who are. The ability to evoke deep emotion, reveal a new facet of the world, or condense an entire story into the limited space and form of a poem (or likewise, of a good song lyric, or the text for a children’s picture book) seems like pure magic to me.”

“the onewho will jolt awakeall the unwrittenthe unsungand the unlived in me. i am waitingfor him.”

“The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.”

“I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me”

“in the afterglowof an evening raini lay downin the grass and think of youmy body acheslike an after-kissbreaking in soft firesand wildflowersmy dear, i will always bethis tender for you.”