It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

'What's a couple?' I asked my mum. She said, 'Two or three'. Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.