We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

One who achieves through struggle has a far good taste of happiness than who gains at once.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

I lead such a boring life.

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.

Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.