To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

God lives in the Now. There is always peace in the present moment.

A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.

Without complicit submission, authority holds no power.

I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.