The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Market rewards you as per your perception.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.

I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he [Edward Snowden] released. I think there's probably a lot that we don't know. That's what is really interesting.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.