The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

These aren't my rules. Come to think of it. I don't have any rules.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.