You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it, then your will is in the right place.

You may eventually decide to breakup, and that’s fine, because headaches are not cute, but at least you know you tried.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.

And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

When we are in Christ His goals are now our goals, and we are to be busy with his work on earth.

Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break?

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.