One can really love only once.

Every man is his own worst enemy

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Ignorance is not innocence.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

Why must holy places be dark places?

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.