It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.

Keep faith in your abilities to deal with an uncertain next

I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.