Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
Humility is attentive patience.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Freedom is from within.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.