The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.

A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.

Living well is the best revenge.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!

You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.