The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

Change happens at the level of the individual

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

The opinions of others should not deter you from being yourself..

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.