You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.