The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

We live by faith and not by sight.

GTMO has been a goldmine of intelligence about radical Islamic terrorism.

Reason dies collapsing under its own load.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.