If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Work on something that matters. Have courage.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

All are not merry that dance lightly.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.