If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

Honor is what you know about yourself.