I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.
If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you. . . because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
Action is the antidote to despair.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
He is obviously an American hero. John McCain is a vanishing breed. He is an iconoclast, he is in his own mind and often in reality a maverick. And I think, you know, you having spent the time that you spent in the Senate know that this is true.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with.