TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

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.

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

Oh sure. Because we always talk about deep down stuff.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race.

You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed