To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

People are not born with any entirety. With the time we take to achieve it. For it requires concentration and willpower.

The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!

The less negative people you associate yourself with……the more positive your life becomes.

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

I can never be on time for anything. I'm always 10 or 15 minutes late.