A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

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.

To love is to open the window of our heart for all the beauty of the world to come in and dance with joy within our soul.

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!

And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Everybody loses the thing that made them.

It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.