Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

I absolutely insist that all my boys are in bed before breakfast

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.