It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

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.

Become what you should and not what you want to be.

The most childish thing is to believe that you are an adult now...

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.

Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.

I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.