"Earth breathes."

"There`s a point for things we create where they don`t belong to us anymore; when others love them, they belong to the world."

"Hot air expands, and pomposity is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance."

Earthquake commentary: "Hey, the big dog scratched, and you can feel like a flea but the time to pray is every day in a joyful way, like I pray by appreciating life, the universe, the power of Nature."

"Poetry is a transfusion of the ephemeral blood that sustains the universal heartbeat within human society."

Perceiving greatness is humbling and awesome, inspiring and familiar, duty and privilege — the greater of life is served, and we are closer to a civilization based on love, problem-solving, service to one another, Beauty, and discovery.

One of the most efficacious things we could do for the quality of living is to teach ourselves and one another not to fear, misunderstand, misidentify, minimize, or neglect genius, but to recognize and embrace it, within ourselves and in others.

Professors can profess all day long, yet the ratio of professing to actual doing is evidence that, while an earned degree indicates acquired knowledge, it does not creativity make.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

“The true poem rests between the words.”

“Sometimes it`s the girl who wouldn`t give a kiss that the boys call a slut.”

"Why aren`t society`s indolent, mediocre, or even criminal not hated with daily public fury reserved for those who accomplish and achieve?"

"Envy`s spite is talent`s greatest injustice."

Friend is a verb.

Creativity, the ability to make something and effect change, is the inherent nature of the human being.

I always take time to dream, everyday.

It robs the public that sex seems to be commonly portrayed or condoned only like it`s something dirty.

Wit is only as biting as its truth is sharp.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

An invention is a solution to a need.

People use ridicule to belittle something perceived big enough to fear.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

Most religions are fine until people get into the act.

People turn religion into the ultimate name-dropping.

We are at the helm of not only our own physicality but our environment and other species, too, as sentient, conscious beings who can think of future and affect consequence, and create progeny with our minds as well as our bodies.

The only sins are violation of love.

Sex in space is more than a big bang.

Poets are the liberators of truths confined within humankind.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, its bragging.

We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos.

Invention requires disciplines of strict common sense and wild imagination.

The teeth of biting wit are sharpened by truth.

Reserve the right to make up a word where none has gone before.

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

Humility: the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt.

Ideals exist, the rest is temporary interruption.

Fame is not the glory, virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It`s good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Let`s color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

The true poem rests between the words.

Don`t count your check-ins before they cash.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

If dishonest creeps want to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Declare World Party I !

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it`s a system of trade, but it`s not my purpose and reason for living.

`Impossible` is not a scientific term.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

Pay me for my work but I don`t do it for the money.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it`s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

"There are more English teachers and editors in the world than authors, and some are smart enough to know the difference."

"If you speak truth, it`s likely to offend or threaten some people, and the first thing they will get busy saying about you, guaranteed, is that you`re a liar."

"Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you."

"Leadership is not about being important, it`s about serving something important."

"Gossip can be entertaining, occasionally I`ve heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew."

"We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn`t have a World Party."

"What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt."

"Success is nonintuitive in some ways because when we work hard, with sacrifice, devotion, and we fervently give our heart and soul, our best as a gift, the last thing we expect is that it sours or enrages another to see good results."

"Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots."

"`Realistic dreamer` is not an oxymoron."

"The only sins are violations of Love."

"Understanding precedes peace."

"There is no hospitality like understanding."

"Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment."

"Love is a quality, not a quantity."

"Ideals exist, the rest is temporary interruption."

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

"Life kissed her however it could."

"Life is my lover."

"My body is aging without my consent. One day we may disagree so much, we`ll have to part ways."

"I`ve been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret will be not being able to write about it."

"Success makes enemies of those who would`ve never been real friends."

"Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends! and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word (friend). It`s good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd."

"Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views. That would inspire reverence and wonder about one`s self and one`s partner, and would have anyone feeling very beautiful."

“I consider myself more exportant than important.”

“The only sins are violations of love.”

"Patience is being friends with Time."

Why have a cake if I can`t eat it?

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

We`ve been there on World Wars, it`s time for World Party I.

“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”

"If I were after fame I could`ve just unbuttoned my shirt."

"Anger is a wound gone mad."

“When we love there is no reason why.”

“Where you see valid achievements or virtues being attacked, it`s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own imagined inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon.”

“Pay me for my work but I don`t do it for the money.”

“Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.”