While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

Theory can blind observation.

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word

When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them shallow men.

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.