I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.