For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.