You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.
It don't stop 'til the casket drop.
The way [Barack Obama] danced, it looked like he could dance in a circle with anyone from Chris Brown to. . . well, I don't want to say Michael Jackson, because he's like the king.
Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping and spending money and being paid. There's nothing wrong with any of these things. These are things we do. I just think it's important to look at them from a different perspective - to see how bizarre and banal these rituals we partake in are. It's just important to think about them, I think, and to carry on. Life is about retrospection, and I think that goes for every facet of life.