Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

The Apache don't have a word for love, " he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?""Tell me.""Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

Life itself demands change from every dweller of planet earth.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

If you really want to change someone's life today, don't just pray for them... pray with them.

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?