All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.