A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.
It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us
Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.
The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.
I prefer love over sex.
It's a lot better to hope than not to.
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.