The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

Change happens at the level of the individual