If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

I don't care what they say with their mouths-everybody knows that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars-everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings ... There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

It is the mind that makes the body.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a man determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.