When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

I am more than the person I was, I am more than who I am, and I am excited about who I have yet become.

The sea hath fish for every man.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

Not that I'm a fan of Bernie Sanders, but a lot of Bernie people voted for Trump. You know why? Because he's right on one issue: Trade. He was right about trade.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.