I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Blame is safer than praise.

Imitation is suicide.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.” 

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

“All government is an ugly necessity.”

Meditate… do not delay, lest you later regret it.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.  

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Letting yourself be overtaken by negative emotions leads to suffering. Therefore, it’s important to recognize the shortcomings of an unruly, undisciplined mind. If you train your mind, you’ll suffer less.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

You must understand that even if your adversaries seem to be harming you, in the end their destrucive activity will turn against them.

But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind.

Love leaves scars.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.