I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.
Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
Most prisons have wide gates!
Journeys end in lovers' meeting. '. . . But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.
everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story.