Beauty without expression is boring.

Sprinkle joy.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

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

Simplicity of approach is always best.

“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.” – 

“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no Applause.”

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

“Anybody can be with you when you’re right, but only friends are with you when you mess up.” 

“He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)”

“If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.” 

“As Dr. King once said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” 

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

“We learn most where we know the least.” 

“Always look at what people do, not who they are.” 

I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow.

“Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?” 

“More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.” 

The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

If you look at the story of 'The Get Down,' it's the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources, trying to create something.

“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” 

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”