Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

I have seen the light and it is green

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Michael Jackson is what happens when you keep fixin' it until it's broke!

Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.