We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

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.

My love is the solitaire she wears and it's priceless.

Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

In politics there are no principles, just opportunities

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

Occasionally, don't be afraid to say: This is what we deserve.