This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

There should be no censorship of mail.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Catching up with the end result is never final, until it is, upon death.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.