“This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.”

“Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed w...”

“no one asks poor people if they want war.”

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and...”

“...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...”

“He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“If we want the world to change, the healing of culture and greater balance in nature, it has to start inside the human soul.”

“Use your love to change the world, but never change your love for any reason.”

“You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”

“You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known.”

“Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.”

“Even you cant tell yourself how to change, because you didnt create you. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the univer...”