Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.

Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.

Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Set your mark on humanity by being your own unique self and doing the things that make your heart shine. With such passion, you can make an impact on the world.

Everything negative, useless, and redundant must go.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.