The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me.

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

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