The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were for sharing.

One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.

Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do.

FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.

The dream that wakened me pushed at the veil of consciousness but could not burst through, and I was left wondering what I had known just a moment before.

Macho does not prove mucho.

I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.

Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.