It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

When you're having a depressive surge painful memories can start to emerge.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.