Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation. That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise we don't have a country.

Every time we mention the world, we must remember it is going to end.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.