People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend