People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Focus on greatness to be great.

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

Normally you have news, weather and travel.....but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.