“Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.”

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

So many ways to touch someone and all you had to do was look at me.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love. Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?

It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

I’ve never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn’t just be given to me.