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

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

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.

What time is it on the clock of the world?

You never know until you give something your best and keep working at it. Follow your dreams no matter what

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.

I can’t help it if you drive me crazy.”

Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

A letter does not blush.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.