I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.