Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

A witch always exercises their body and mind.

You always have a choice. Choose to be splendid.

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.