Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

this IS the time when man must be Free.

Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.

The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Everything is decided bya person's thoughts and if he is ideologically motivated, there is nothing he cannot do.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.