In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Breathtaking beauty is just over the barrier that you always fear.

The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.

I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.