Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.