The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again.

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.

You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

The United States must get a taste of its own poison.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

You can choose to follow your heart always.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.