Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.
I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.