Wendy Egyoku Nakao Roshi

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

When you know better you do better.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God’s sake. But nothing in us unlike him, can please him.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Live, let live, and help live

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.