Strong people don't need strong leaders.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Personality is a strategy devised by a child. Our true, original self lies under our personality, in the transpersonal ground of our being, at our core.

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal.

I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.