While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through and exploring and wondering and figuring out your thoughts.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

I fart in your general direction.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

And never resist a perfect moment.

Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.