Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Find a voice in a whisper.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100, 000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.

Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.