Wisdom Sayings

I have no respect for the world, nor for what it thinks of me.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—with a rose and a myrtle tree.

The Child is father of the Man.

I, too, sing America. I, too, am America.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

There was a time when man had a closer communion with the natural world, but now we have become so separated. We have lost our sense of wonder.

The more I think, the more I feel that it is the one great thing to do.

My father always told me that I should try to make my hobby my profession. That's what I did.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

It is not the eye that sees the light, but the mind that sees the light through the eye.

If a man will not be a fool, he must not be a dogmatist.

I wish they'd simply accept me as I am.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

I can not tell a lie. I did cut down the cherry tree.