When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

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.

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

IF you want to learn, there is enough to learn till the last breath!!

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!

I am a happy soul, despite all life challenges.

We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

The days that make us happy make us wise

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.