If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable. – Huston Smith
When you make that crossover from life to real life, when youre not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. – Ricky Williams
The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. – Townsend Harris
