Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Remember the days you prayed for the things you have now.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.