Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the pieces that make up you.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?