Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution

He that hath ears to hear let him hear.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things.

I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

The more you practice what you know, the more shall you know what to practice.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.