Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

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.

He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The key to prayer is simply praying.

In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.

I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.

Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.

President Obama came up with tremendous ideas, but he was blocked by the Republicans.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.