Never wound a snake; kill it.

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

Food is a creative, personal journey

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.