People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

I wake up, eat, make a beat. Play Xbox, make another beat and go to bed. Occasionally do something. I rarely party.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.