Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

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.

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

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.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

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

Failure are given power, not success ..

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

You see the crowds. I mean, you don't see enthusiasm like that at a Hillary [Clinton] rally. People are falling asleep.

I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.

I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?