Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.