The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.