To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.