The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It is only kindness and love, which can change the human heart.

I am a poem in progresswith no clear beginning or endingjust a middleuntended, unintended, unfinished, hanging therelike the breath before a question

Faith and perseverance is the key to overcoming obstacles.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

To focus means to bring your attention to the center, to concentrate on one thing intently in order to gain clarity.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.