'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Prana (life energy) colored by the tought of the sender may be projected to persons at a distance, who are willing to receive it, and the healing can be done this way.