And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Infinite and finite are both mental constructs.

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.