Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.