There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

It is winter, and very cold. There are icicles against the glass, and frost. I am tracing a pattern, before it melts. Before it fades, and is lost for good, like memories

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

I did it to show the world that Jews have guts.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.