We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

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.

It takes time to be a success.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

If you don't have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

With complete consecration comes perfect peace.