Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Give and take is business not bhakti

Leave a person alone who had a unpleasant past if you cant make his future a pleasant, you would do worse

you have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.

Love enough to end a war.

Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

All things lie dark in possibility.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.