A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Make your dreams worth more than your sleep.

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

I can see the caravanserai, like a mirage in the distance. The heat hums. I thought I saw water. What would you have on these trade winds for your comfort?

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.