Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

I need to go where I feel loved.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells.