Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Are you there God? It's me$$$ Margaret.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music$$$ a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry$$$ he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present$$$ and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it$$$ Love fails$$$ Friendship fails$$$ Intelligence fails$$$ Humanity: fails.

Dare to love yourself$$$ as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Music clouds the intellect$$$ but clarifies the heart.

I am hopeful$$$ though not full of hope$$$ and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new