I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle

And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege....

Faith is the force of life.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry