When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

When all else fails, take a vacation.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

So on a scale of one to Adele, how bad was this breakup?

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...

I can't stand making records.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

There are social democrats and others who are marching more in the direction of equality, whether you call them socialists or communists... Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.