It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.