“The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.”

It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Total commitment is a crucial quality for those who want to reach the very top of their profession.

Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.

The American people want to believe that we have a justice department that is committed to justice.

For the children. For the brave youngsters. For their smiles. We remain committed to young cancer sufferers and continue to support the investigation efforts into this illness in young people:

There is a deep desire in everyone to commit suicide for the simple reason, that life seems to be meaningless.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

If you commit a crime, you’re guilty.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.