You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

Meditation is a deep thought.

Now that I have made peace with the imperfections, I no longer look around for happiness. I found the eternal happiness that has always been there, somewhere within me!

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Through one all are known, through one all are also seen

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.