My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone.

Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every treeand into my opened hearta little drop ran down.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.