I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

A healthy happy life is a sacred bliss!

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

(Obama) really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time.

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.