It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

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.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

I am not pro-abortion any more than I am pro-appendectomy.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

You could not be more correct. It does matter. All of it.