I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

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.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

Dammit, why isn’t there a book with the answers in it?

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.

Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

False modesty is better than none.