Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.

Do it with great love or forget it.

You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

We have to name a problem to solve a problem.

Give everyone whose life you touch a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.