If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...

Increase is a natural desire

I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one's pegged as odd. The 3 O's remind me not to be ordinary.

I know that God is truth, he holds this still—Beyond me he bears all his free will.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.