Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

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