I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

Bad women celebrate themselves.

Education enhances the power of experience and the beauty of life.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Ministry is messy because sin is messy. Get over it, get a mop and start helping people clean up!