Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

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.

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

Every relationship is governed by motive, capability and reliability and these three factors become the core components of the trust equation

Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

I respect coaches I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.