In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.

Relationships are built in the silences.

Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.

You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.

Don't Fear the Reaper.

Try your best to be caring and loving in your daily encounters with people. You could end up giving hope to someone who has given up on humanity.

Talent works, genius creates.

There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.

I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.