When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

How strongly you believe you really can will play the biggest part in determining if you actually will.

Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

What you work hardest at, you love the most.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.