We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.