There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.

If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.