The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor – no matter the personal price.
Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?
Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.