Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Nature plays its role to strengthen the connection.

Living life is my greatest miracle.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for.

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

We have developed psychic powers in other lives. Now we have many problems because of it, many voices in the mind due to this crowded earth.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.