Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

We are defined by how we use our power.

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.

With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.