I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

My one and only goal is to unite the world.

A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.

If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.