You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.

Once we start writing with a pen, we are not allowed to erase our mistakes, we are forced to deal with it.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.