Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Happiness envelopes the heart.

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.

I can make cookies and do easy stuff. Pies are very specific and hard to do well though.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

I don't mind being called Supernova. If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."