What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to the victims.

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.