Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

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.

Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

A smile is the most affordable way of giving someone an expensive gift.

I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth – a small machine.

If you want to kill giants, hang around a giant killer. It rubs off.

Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.