To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.
I get on stage and talk about different stuff in my life and what I've been through and what I think about the world. It's picking out highlights of things and how I became who I am and how my daddy raised me.
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is. . . . . Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.
C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).