The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

I believe in life after death.