Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. 

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Man is a universe within himself.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. 

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.