She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

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

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.