A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.