Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

Use your wish, ” I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. “Please.”“If I do, ” he replies softly, “I’ll lose you.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has nothing to do with the opening. It descends and inundates.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

He who wrongs one threatens many.

That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.