"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."

"The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear."

"There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio."

"You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble."

"[Last year] was the year that the digital music market took shape."

"All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents"

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen revolution inevitable."

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"The great enemy of thruth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth - persistent, contrived and unrealistic. beliefs in myths allows the comfort od opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"Within the space of 10 weeks, two courts in different continents and hemispheres have given a huge boost to the efforts by music and technology companies to forge a legal online music business."

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning."

"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."

"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

"But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

"World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."

"When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working."

"If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed with its five fingers spread"

"The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth."

"Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep."

"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"

"The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life."

"Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness"

"When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever."

"The moment of change is the only poem."

"I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind."

"And I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other."

"Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know."

"These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know."

"Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls."

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters."

"If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end."

"For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see."

"What we see, we see and seeing is changing"

"To do something very common, in my own way."

"In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence."

"What kind of beast would turn its life into words?"

"There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected."

"I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch"

"Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail."

"There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity."

"You touched me in places so deep I wanted to ignore you."

"I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes...are maps...I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail"

"It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry."

"But from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"