Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter, '... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.

I don’t wish to be successful but I definitely wish to be successful in helping someone, sometime for something good.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.