The wounded are instruments, singing pain.
What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.
I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
