Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

What time is it on the clock of the world?

People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

People calculate too much and think too little.

The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.

Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.