“Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
“I cannot condone the systematic destruction of the hope and spirit of people who have suffered hardship and pain to reach our shores. They are people who believe that they have been or are at risk of being persecuted in their own country.”
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.”
“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”
“Where … do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.”
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
