Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.

There are rich counsels in the trees.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.