My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.