People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Please stop. If you keep chipping off little pieces of my heart, soon there will be no heart left with which to love you.

Learn to combine the Power of The Heart and mind into one force to create your desires.

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.

I married my husband who is thirteen years older, so I will always be a trophy wife for him.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.