Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Sometimes you will do good things and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Don’t ask a yes or no question unless the person being asked can say no without hesitation.

Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for most people, in that there's almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just light, but that's how everything is for me.

And now, I'm thinking again, isn't there something we can do about something we can't do anything about?

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you?

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.