There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I don't date as an active activity anymore because the work of loving myself is enough.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.

What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.