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Get out of the room.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Let us remember:

One book,

one pen,

one child,

and one teacher

can change

the world.

Only I can change my life.

No one can do it for me

Carol Burnett

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

Vulnerability in my songs is what connects people to the music.

Life’s too short to hang out with people

who aren’t resourceful.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

It was not pre arranged.

It just happened that the driver made a demand

and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand.

I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

The best advice comes from experience.

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

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary,

simply by doing them with the right people.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature

opposition to it is his love of justice.

These principles are an eternal antagonism;

and when brought into collision so fiercely,

as slavery extension brings them,

shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

To become truly great,

one has to stand with people,

not above them.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

There is only one corner

of the universe you can

be certain of improving,

and that's your own self.

I like my raps,

but I'm never too happy with some of 'em

because I feel like they could be better.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

To be great is to be misunderstood.