The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

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.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.