In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

In a time of destruction, create something.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

The world of wonder is wonderful wilderness.

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote.