I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive from living a wondrous and full life.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.