Lauryn Hill

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Let’s love ourselves then we can’t fail to make a better situation tomorrow. Our seeds will grow, all we need is dedication.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise?

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

All mankind love a lover.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

Nature hates calculators.

Being is the great explainer.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.