Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

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.

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.

A lost sheep needs a shepherd to find the way

Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

If there’s a place for it in your heart, there’s a place for it in your home.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.