The device of "rejection" may temporarily cover up anxiety, but it does not bestow peace of mind and emotional security.

People would pass on us because we dressed weird. The Killers had just happened, The Libertines had just happened. Everyone was looking for the next Arctic Monkeys.

We conserve nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means liberal; we do not work for progress; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about equal rights, a free society, no more masters and no servants has no allure for us.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.

It is impossible even to begin the act of loving one's enemies without prior acceptance of the necessity, over and over again, of forgiving those who inflict evil and injury upon us.