I believe in a non-killing future.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

The world does not know how to concentrate on working.

The people who are happy for your happiness and sad for your sadness... keep them around.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

Children can change the world.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.