Respect is primary.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Agitation gives birth to creation.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.

No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying.

We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.