Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.