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

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.

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

Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.

Do not ask God the way to heaven

I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.