Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

And what do you believe?”A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above

‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always say" -Paisley

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.