I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.