Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

We recognise in the finished art which is the result of these conditions the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is so far as the poetry is concerned to know something that may be entertaining even delightful but is certainly inessential.

So I suppose poetry language the shaping of it was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

The question is what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

But in terms of how people live together how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Peace of course is different from divorce indeed in essential respects divorce is the opposite of peace.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Music is essentially useless as is life.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

People wrestle sometimes making movies and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.