The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.