We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

Indian car buyers have not really been exposed to customer care in a competitive environment.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.