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.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

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

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.