When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed,
but when we are silent we are still afraid, so it is better to speak.-- Audre Lorde
It
showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer
limited to observing the world: Now you could join it. Instead of just
being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. You could
make them yourself.-- Susan Burton
We are the representatives of the cosmos;
we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years
of cosmic evolution.-- Carl Sagan
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.-- Barbara Ward
There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of
the things we want most—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always
attained when we give them to others. Give it away to get it back.-- John Wooden
We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march
from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them
again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal
untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons
when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our
bare bones. Given time, they grow again.-- Katherine May
In this period of information bankruptcy and instability, business has
to be a primary source of objective facts, a catalyst for change and a
standard-bearer for universal values.-- Richard Edelman
Our military and weapons prowess is a
fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every
international problem a nail.-- Rachel Maddow
... the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.-- Madeleine Albright
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.-- Mwai Kibaki
