“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Study the past if you would define the future.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man’s inhumanity to man, regardless – there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.