Anything we love can be saved.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

It is natural to want to have a future.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.