I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not, ” I was saying my path would be my own.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older" what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.