Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Using for a noble purpose is still using.

I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

The reason most people don’t accomplish much is because they don’t want much.

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to show Shall show the better.