Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.

But in a time of war, knowledge made interesting friendships. Soon, the scholars and the thieves were . . . well, thick as thieves.

Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.

I can be fearlessly strong at times to protect an inner frailty.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.