"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."
"In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love."
"A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable."
"In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves."
"The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance."
"Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends."