If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

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.

Words are more thoughts

Life can be hard in the real world.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

Because you don’t ever find things when you’re looking for them. You find them when you’re not.” “If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch.

I think the most important thing is in life, it's all about balance. It's balance between foods you like and nutrition.