Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

I have a younger brother.

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

From where I sit now, I like the looks of tomorrow.

Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it