Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Faith is the flip side of fear.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.

See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.