The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.