Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.