Of my friends I am the only one left.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.