Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you . . .

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

I am a movement chauvinist.

We are flowers in the field seeking our individuality. We may seem similar but we are all unique, without exception. Everyone is special.

I'm blind without my glasses.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

We're human, so you're never happy with what you have.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.