The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Boldness be my friend.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I’m an emotional person.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

One man with courage is a majority.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.