I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.

Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.

All changes are born within.

...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).

They should have focused more on me.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.