I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs, it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

I respect the fact that Donald Trump always listens. It's how he was in business. It's how he is as president.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Become the most passionate person you know. It'll be contagious.

Doubtless there are other roads.

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.