We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!