Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. |
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be. |
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. |
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state |
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. |
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain. |
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. |
I want to be an honest man and a good writer. |
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. |
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. |
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. |
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it |
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. |
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate." |
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. |