Turn your eyes away from fear. Discontinue the conversations of fear if you choose to embrace the fullness of your heart

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.

If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'