What it is, ” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

She thinks she is white, ' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.