The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.