Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.