What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

To be wise, know yourself.

Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.

There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.

What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.