The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

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.

Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for!

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.