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

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.

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.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is.

A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

You know me... I can't resist a good prank.

You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.