I came to explore the wreck.

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.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

I love trainwrecks on live TV.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.

You just want to make something that's awesome and that people dig, and I'm excited about it.