"Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius."

“A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.”

“It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.”

“Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the anxieties of the future and thinking that we are somehow making ourselves feel better by doing so. We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.”

“But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.”

“I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

“Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2009). “Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Broadway Books

“Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.”