Men make their own history

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

I don't like when people pay for me.

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

You don't need anything but your own two legs to run. You don't even need shoes, according to some people.

Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.