Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.

True friendship is a promise you keep forever.

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.