We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that.

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

Take your love and put it where the sun don't shine.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.