“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our young people – one of these is roots, the other is wings.”
“You have got to know what it is you want, or someone is going to sell you a bill of goods somewhere along the line that can do irreparable damage to your self-esteem, your sense of worth, and your stewardship of the talents that God gave you.”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are just rearranging their prejudices.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
“War is not women’s history.”
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“After thinking long and hard about what life will be like when we die, I’m convinced that so much is dependent on our life now and on our state of mind at the moment of death. To prepare yourself for that inevitable journey you must begin to take responsibility for all that you are in this life, to look at your life with clarity and assess it with truth. It seems that our delusions about what life holds for us in the hereafter arise from our delusions about who we are in the here and now. If we can accept that we are already spirit beings living in a spirit realm, we can accept that death is not so much a journey to a different world but to a different state of mind.”
“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”
“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”
