A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don’t know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.