"If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules."

“During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.”

“Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.”

Source : Megan McMorris, Pam Houston (2006). “Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives”, p.8, Seal Press

“There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.”

“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future.”

“I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.”

“Unfair trade practices drive up rents for younger people. They will drive up home prices for first-time home-buyers. So it's not just that we're losing jobs and factories. We're giving away our homes, our businesses, our companies, our technologies.”

“Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.”