We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

What I treasure most in life is being able to dream. During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future.

I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

I took tap classes growing up.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.