Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

When you find something you genuinely enjoy, don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don't feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them.

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

I have friends with deals, both major and indie, and the ones on majors never seem as happy, and quite frankly aren't making music as strong as those on independents.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.