I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

The saddest day hath gleams of light The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it The twinkles o'er the cloudiest night Some solitary star to cheer it.

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself

Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.