I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.