I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legsand arms used to be. That’s how his mindfelt—like his missing memories were aching.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.