Meditation Quotes

Be authentic;

everything else is secondary.

I gotta stay real to myself,

that’s the code.

Knowledge is power.

Be yourself;

everyone else is already taken.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity,

and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Science is organized knowledge.

Wisdom is organized life.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley.

He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand,

good can come out of it.

Stay focused,

stay calm,

and trust your instincts.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Our great responsibility is to leave a safer,

better world for our children.

My friends,

as I have discovered myself,

there are no disasters,

only opportunities.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings,

we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Friendship,

like the immortality of the soul,

is too good to be believed.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl

is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

The winners when you're doing these experiments

pay for thousands of losers.

Vision without action cannot transform a nation.