Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.

As far as the nuclear is concerned, I agree. It is the single greatest threat that this country has.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

To go faster you must slow down.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

My programming language was solder.