You control whether you are happy. It's all your narrative and you can change it if you choose to." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

I never could get a proper job.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.