The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.

I just elbowed the pretty blonde he'd been speaking to aside and slapped my panties on his chest. "As soon as I saw you", I purred, "I knew I wouldn't be needing these"!

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.