Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

We are all special cases.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.