Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world, I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.