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

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I am just one human being.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

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

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

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.

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.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

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.

I just want to be myself.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.