No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside

The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve their honour.

I'm not like a performer type.

If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.