I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.

What goes up must come down.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.