Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

Those who boast are not respected.

Art is about paying attention.

But a hot gym is where most of us have trained before. Learn to deal with it: more water, more minerals, bigger balls.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.