The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Economy prudence and a simple life are the sure masters of need and will often accomplish that which their opposites with a fortune at hand will fail to do.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

Thinking about death... clarifies your life!

A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?