Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.