We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.