There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?