But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Patience and love can do anything.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Slow people are just paying close attention.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.

Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.