What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

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.

I still have your wrist watch but I couldn't hold the time still.

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.