I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

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.

Adversity tests the limit of your strength.

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man

Man's memory shapesIts own Eden within

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist.