I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

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.

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

You are always freed by your lucid knowledge and acceptance of your tasks.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.