Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Truth is the greatest casualty of compromised media.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. 

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plight may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, i almost certainly will.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.