All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.

I like to dominate powerful men..Black men aren't good at oral $ex”

It's an awful risky thing to live

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

I think reality TV is so popular because it makes everyone in the country feel like, 'Hey, I can be on TV. I can be a star overnight.' I think America also has a little voyeurism in their hearts.

I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.