I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it..

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all..

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it..

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart..

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious..

Every President hates the Press..

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Stop shoulding on yourself.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much..

Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael..

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself..

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually..

I'm a woman of the '90s..

I take things too seriously..

Act because you love to act..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

Twitter! Never have lives been less lived and more chronicled!.

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it..

I live, which is the main point..

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments..

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun..