You could climb to the top of the world and jump into the deepest of ravines, but if you don’t have someone to share it with you’ll always be looking back.

It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.

How do we perceive what’s important in life, from what we once thought to what we think now, how does it change?

Where there is darkness, there once was light.

I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air.

Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.

It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.

Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.

Every time my stupor turns into vibrancy, standing around is not an option.

If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered.

Still we remain, still we fight. Still we strive, still we survive.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.

They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.