No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.