I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

The wind plays its own music.

Although complex, life is simple. It is individual.Living is the challenge. It is interactive. It's collective.

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.