You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
