Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

Each time you teach, you learn something else you needed to know.

How much easier it is to be poor than rich.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

I listen with love to my body's messages.

To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.