Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

Never confuse activity with action.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.