Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

May the pathways that are Soulfully gifted to you, never be ignored — but, always embraced.

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.

I do not want to answer provocative question.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.