It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

My sun sets to rise again.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Fall is the season of beauty and delicious food. Be grateful for the change of scenery, and try observing it to get more book ideas.

We call ourselves poor, that's why we're poor. When we will start calling ourselves rich then we will become rich, even it won't look like that. Self trust is freedom.

When are you at your most defenseless?

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.