And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

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.

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.

Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in its close-knit unity our people to-day goes straight forward on its way and no power on earth will avail to stop it.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me