Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
I am not now That which I have been.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
Common sense is not so common.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
An idea is salvation by imagination