My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Mom wanted me to fight. To live.I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone.

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.

It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.