Action is the antidote to despair.
I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don’t, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations – some large and some small.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.