In any adversity gold can find friends.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.

They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

You cannot compare America and Russia.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.