Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Firmly believe that terrorism, in any shape or form, is against humanity. There should be zero tolerance towards terrorism.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.