"Writing was my way to make sense of the world outside and inside my home. Despite the recollections of the adults in …"

"I think I was politicized at age five, once I started noticing the beggars on the streets, and children my age who ha…"

"We often hear all this rhetoric of “spare the rod and spoil the child,” discipline and punishment, and I just don’t b…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"

"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping…"