I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

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.

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.

The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.

What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

Dream big with no limitations.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.