A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.