I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

It is so.When YOU think so

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

It’s a matter of when I’ll stop fighting. — Duke

Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that you expect from a Kehinde Wiley painting, too.

The path of violence has not yielded anything. Shed guns and adopt the path of peace, unity, goodwill and brotherhood.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.