As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

Good influences are positive, and they see the good in even bad situations.

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.