Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

When life goes, the body becomes weaker

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

I mean you last as long as lies.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

No one should be surprised just because somebody isn't successful 100 percent of the time.