You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.
Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat. , Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero. ]
Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such a thing should ask it of Santa Claus, in whom they doubtless also believe.