Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.

Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.