Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

The thought of Annie being gone was too much to bear. I swear I heard gasps from the girls as Abby released the words of her passing to the screen.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

You’ll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen times…the wrong way…to love THAT ONE…the right way…YOU!

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.