"I am reclaiming myself.  Trusting my goodness and my divine mission."

“Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.”

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

Source : Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)

“Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.”

“There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.”

“A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.”

Source : "A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything". Rediff On The Net Interview, www.rediff.com. 1997.

“Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.”

“The future awaits those with the courage to create it.”

“The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.”