As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Patti Smith

On the September 11 attacks: In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

John Pilger

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

Proverb

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Milan Kundera

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Norman MacCaig

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

William O. Douglas

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Ninon De L'Enclos

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Rudyard Kipling

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Josh Billings

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

Brandi L. Bates