Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

Be your own best friend and unlock the fountain of beauty.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.