As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge.

I want it to stop, " he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area.