If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease.

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.