Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.