Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

You can think whatever you want, say whatever you want, and do whatever you want, as long as you are willing to face the consequences.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

Accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength.

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.

We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

I'm not bitter at all. I think my memories in Denver are great.

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.