If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

Even if you can't win show defeat it can't get it the easy way.

Never stop loving yourself, for how can you truly love someone if you don't love yourself first. And never be afraid to love, for it is one of the most beautiful uglist things of this world.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

I like laughter around me.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.