For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.