I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

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.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

Never let a man determine the woman you want to be.

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.