Who loves his pain denies his god.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

The jealousy of the dead is lasting!

Love is the image of ourself until ourself destroys us.

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc.

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.