Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

The youthful heart is ready to believe what it wishes will happen.

Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.