Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

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.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.

Keep your sense of humor. Stay funny.

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.

Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.