Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.

I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.

The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.