Befriend simple thoughts for tangled ones may choke you

If one dies to inspire, believe it or not he's already inspiring one's self

I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.

...the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

Take your life out of high gear and disengage the autopilot mode. Try living mindfully and avoid the pattern of living in a reactive manner.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.