Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

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.

The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin.

Oh man, the car could just burst into flames right now and this would be the way to go, huh guys?

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.