As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach

Knowledge makes you strong, understanding makes you formidable, wisdom makes you powerful, and love makes you invincible.

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

They're similar to the human idea of the sandman. They used to help people sleep. Now they're more prone to creating nightmares that end in death." Lucky's description of the dream weavers.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.