Shut your eyes and see.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

He was colossal (apparently they felt behemoth was easier to spell).

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

Do something everyday that scares you.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.