I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking.

Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question.

It was tough, I gave everything I had on those match points but she just came up with better shots. I still find it very hard to believe. Its amazing.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

When one runs 45, 50 or even 100km, for me, is not an ultra runner