We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.