I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.