Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.