In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops...

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

Hopefully I'm not a grumpy old guy sitting in the corner, yelling at people and demanding things.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.