I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I stared down into her eyes, my voice barely a whisper. "If I stay here any longer, I'm not going to be able to stop myself from kissing you.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

If you have love in your life, you have life.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

There is no peace in poverty

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.