The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
