I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

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.

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.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.