Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

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.

Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. “I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can’t you say it, Hero?

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.