As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

If you believe...you will!

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.

Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.

How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?