People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love.

Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be. Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.