The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.