We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?

Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

My voice, I'm blessed to have it.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.

This much is true: you have been lied to.