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

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.

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.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

You are better than you think.

I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.