All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.