Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
I do not give up, I never give up, For there is nothing In this entire world That is irrevocably unchangeable.
I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.