The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

Yoga has helped me become more in tune and respectful of not just my body but my soul.