Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion.

Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.

Through college she had been a feminist—basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

There are no big men and big women. There are small people with big dreams and extra larger passion!

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

Leadership comes with consistency.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.