And I had to get out of hating range.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Find the alignment between your gifts, skills, experiences and people’s needs. Therein is your secret to tap into the unknown

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

There is no darkness as dark as a great light corrupted.

I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.