Once you label me you negate me.

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.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.