“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love.”
–The Dalai Lama

“You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.”
- Daoud Hari
The Translator–A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur

“I beleive in the power of words. With words you can save people, and with words you can kill people. Words are the best and the worst weapons of human beings.”

– Paul Rusesabagina, the inspiration behind the film “Hotel Rwanda”, explaining his ability to repeatedly convince oppressors not to kill him or the more than 1,000 people he sheltered during Rwanda’s 100-day genocide in 1994.

Let’s dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else can.

- Shirley Briggs

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

-Khalil Gibran

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

-Abraham Lincoln

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

-Robert Benchley

You don’t see things as they are. You see things as you are.

Talmud

One must rise by that by which one falls.

Tantra