I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

I dream, therefore I exist.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

We take to the breeze, we go as we please.

Daniel 12:3 "...and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.

it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.