I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

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

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?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

The true goal of Christian unity is world evangelization.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Books are a uniquely portable magic.