How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

You watch the news these days? It's unbelievable. You think you just walk out your door, you're immediately gonna be raped by some crack-addicted, AIDS-infected pitbull.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.