“The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I participated in it and played some role in it. But I regret a lot of that.”

The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.

If you’re going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I’ve never met, new friends.

Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.

Let’s enjoy this world. Let’s enjoy one another. We are meant to love one another, not to hate one another.

Moreover, his ferocious slide playing motivated Clapton to turn in some of the finest guitar performances of his career

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

… Geniuses have a little extra something. There’s that little something that you know is a little different.

I know that’s a little jarring, coming from a Weatherman, but what I mean by being humble is doubting if your action did anything. So you have to open your eyes, act and doubt. And then you have to repeat for a lifetime.

Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

They’ve just memorized that stupid fact sheet. And we thought, gosh do we sound that good? It didn’t seem possible. But that was my introduction to politics.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base – those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

The thunder does not apologize in fear of anyone, look at what that braveness does it trembles the whole sky.

Growth has taught me to apologize when i am to blame, but not to say sorry when i shouldn’t feel ashamed.

To all those who ever wished to hurt me, “ I am sorry that you broke when you hit me.”

When the trust is broken sorry means nothing.

Please forgive me for what I said when I was at war with myself & projecting onto you.

Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

I’m not going to say I’m sorry for the things that I’ve done because I think that it allows me to tell a story.

Never hold grudges, it won’t take you anywhere.