It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

The power of positive thinking is vital for maintaining happiness, goodhealth and longevity.

Seek and find the freedom of the spirit, for where there is true freedom, there is peace, and where there is peace, there is love,and it is love that unlocks all doors.

We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.