I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Travel teaches toleration.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

You should never give up your inner self.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

For me, education was power.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.