The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The more perfect we are, the more quiet and gentle we become towards others.

There is no other consolation to the emptiness of the past than the memory of it.

Your life is a canvas; paint it with love, kindness, and the colors of your unique expression.