“At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much—and I’m using it to light the torches of others.” 

“We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It's worth taking time to demistify it. [...] All the things an adolescent can be [...] are reduced to a three digit number. [...] We too can decide how to value our education instead of letting them value us.” 

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

“It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.” 

“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.” 

“Feminism is memory.” 

“we don’t know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But” 

“I'm not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday” 

“That’s why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.” 

“She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.” 

“It was the first time I witnessed the ancient and modern magic of groups in which anyone may speak in turn, everyone must listen, and consensus is more important than time.” 

“Beware of any motto that glorifies the past. It’s code for restoring hierarchy. For example: “Make America great again.” 

“If time is relative, doing new things actually makes us feel we’ve lived a longer life.” 

“That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow for consciousness to change.” 

“At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much—and I’m using it to light the torches of others.” 

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.” 

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time

 “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.”