It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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.

Not all paths offer a vista. But every path offers a lesson.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there.

The universe is amply supplied with night.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.