Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

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.

Keep your mind on the pure thoughts .

Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!