FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.

Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do.

Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.

The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were for sharing.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

God does not have problems. Only plans.

In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.