Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

The best way to preserve a child’s vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.