If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.
If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.
There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.