Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it our tools are evolving faster than the human body so why obey the limits of mere nature?

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Which is - you know like check it out I'm pretty young I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book right?

But to me nothing - the negative the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

I was supposed to be women's lib and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

It is hard I submit to loathe bloodshed including war more than I do but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.