Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

It's good to be back, feeling like myself and enjoying it.

If I don't get a Wahlburger in me soon, I'm gonna go ballistic.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!