The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

You are a lamp to give light to people

This is everything I thought I didn't want. Or didn't need. But I'm here now and it's everything I need and the only thing I want.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.