If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

I have never believed in the impossible.

To strengthen the power of love, love those who do not deserve.

With true light comes instruments of peace. It's best when such peace begins in an American home and spread out throughout the many homes, villages and societies in the world.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.