It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.

When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.

It's always nice when someone says that they don't realize it's me on screen, but it would be strange to enter a one story while thinking of another character I do, which is completely different.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.