I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

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.

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.