Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

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.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

I make clothes, women make fashion.

There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.