We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

As I studied the remians of book pages, scatered among the ashes, my heart sank.

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.