Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.