A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.