The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

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

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.