If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.