Success makes success, like money makes money.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

I go to bed with knowledge to dream, then dreams wake me up with the lights of wisdom.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading...Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what’s going on with you and God behind closed doors.

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.