Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.