Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.