Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

It was always once springtime in my heart.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

Flowers are so inconsistent!

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

Western man is schizophrenic.

My personal favorite records might have to be "Keep It Rollin" and "360" featuring Meek Mill...oh and the Intro Is Murder!

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.

Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.