I wanted it for how it made me feel, regardless of how little it cared for me. Do whatever you want -- just give me the bliss.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

Don’t be too nice to him, ” I teased. “He’ll never leave.

When your intentions are to serve, you will be served.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Every call of Christ leads into death.

People take the feeling of full for granted.

I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.