So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)

I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.

Today is the best time to do what you couldn't do yesterday, because tomorrow might be too late.

Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.

How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?

I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.