I was punished for communicating.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.