Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

I'm not a Reggaeton artist and I'm not a Crunk artist either.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.