"Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists."

“If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.”

“To dance is human, to polka is divine.”

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

“But look, I cleared out all y’all that got in the way/And y’all knew that I was ill, but now my doctor is Dre”

“When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most shaping of the poetry; it's simply living as completely in the world as a politically alert creature, as someone who is both stuck in and also trying to view the historical moment. Folded into all of that, of course, whatever you see in your life.”

“Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”

“Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.”

Source : Glenn L. Pace (1995). “Spiritual Plateaus”

“In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.”