The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

Love is God’s medicine.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey

The absence of specific knowledge about success is the reason why your journey along the path to success has been halted

The busier you are, the more intentional you must be.

No one in the world is really over 28. I wish I had known that when I thought I was 40.

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day