To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.