and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

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.

Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime.

Love is a divine soul.

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.

We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

I persist in performing.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.