Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities.

He that discovers and defines law is law abiding

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

The best way to dwell in the presence of the Lord is to be a thankful person.

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.