The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.

God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.