“Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.”

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

Behave like everything you do matters.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.

There are some adventures not worth having.

Each book holds an experience and an adventure.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

There are places to go beyond belief.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

As you go through your day today remember that life is an adventure and a celebration.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.