Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

Discipline must be maintained.

Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

I am too rich already, for my eyes Mint gold, while my heart cries.

There were so many things I have had to say sorry for that I wasn’t sorry about.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.