“On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.” 

“All movements need a few people who can’t be fired.” 

Didgeridoo is a name that white people gave it when they came to Australia, from the sound that it makes. Its traditional name is yidaki.

“Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.” 

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” 

"A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant."

"Fashion changes, but style endures."

“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”

“Fashion changes, but style endures.”

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

What you seek is seeking you

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

In spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars.