Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.