Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

Music is not my life. Christ is my life.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.