How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.

You are more that the identity your mind creates.

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

We’ll meet the meat.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.