Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

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.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Accept the past

Forgive is the last best thing i can do.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

I don’t want to sleep alone,” she says gently. And I don’t force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.