Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Success-minded people need to understand that the small voice inside them is there for a reason.

The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

If you got to have a dream, you may as well dream big.

Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.