Strangers are an endangered species.

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.

As I grabbed my cocoa, chocolate ran down my hand."This makes me feel like a five-year-old, " I said, licking it off."If I ordered a sandwich at this place, do you think they'd cut the crusts off?

Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.” She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.