A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you’ll make new friends quickly!

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.