The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

That's what marriage is, isn't it? Taking the rough with the smooth. At least, that's what it should be.

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

There are some things that can't be measured.

Their own second and sober thoughts.

I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.