“Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.”
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“When you stop wanting something, you get it.”
“If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.”
“Tomorrow comes after the dark”
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.”
“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.”
“To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.”
“Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.”
“No one can stop what God has for you.”
“Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.”
“Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!”
“Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien”
“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.”
“When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.”
“Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.”
“I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.”
“It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.”
“So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.”
“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.”
“The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality of resistance and of renewed hope to turn ever back to the struggle in the face of the defeats of the oppressed.”