Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality

Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that video and I'm singing in the song - that was different for me.