Be STILL and COOL in thine own MIND and SPIRIT.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot RECOGNIZE the fact that the FOOT is more noble than the shoe, and SKIN more beautiful than the garment with which it is CLOTHED?

I hope you will UNDERSTAND that ARCHITECTURE has nothing to do with the inventions of FORMS. It is not a PLAYGROUND for children, young or old. Architecture is the REAL battleground of the spirit.

When PEOPLE rely on surface appearances and false RACIAL STEREOTYPES, rather than in-depth KNOWLEDGE of others at the level of the heart, mind and SPIRIT, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

If WRINKLES must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The SPIRIT should NEVER GROW OLD.

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first BLACKS in my town to own land. But, I was WORRIED about my history being caked with that SOUTHERN clay, and I subscribed to a DIFFERENT kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

I WANT to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a WAY to get in the way. To find a way to get in TROUBLE. Good trouble, NECESSARY trouble.

I've been STUDYING the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very ATTRACTED to the culture of Japan, in PARTICULAR to the impact Zen has had on the JAPANESE mind and spirit.

Real spiritual AUTHORITY has to do with the TRUTH of the actual words being spoken, and the SPIRIT of the person behind the words. REALLY, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

Never quit believing that you can DEVELOP in life. Never GIVE up. Don't deny the inward spirit that provides the DRIVE to accomplish great THINGS in life.

I have realised I NEED to tone down and be easy at times. It is GOOD to be COMPETITIVE and have a fighting SPIRIT, but one should not GO to extremes.

Life WITHOUT liberty is like a BODY without SPIRIT.