If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance.

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

And your fear boils my fu*king blood Angel, makes me fu*king hungry, do you know that? ~Sade~

Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

I basically had the same body when I was 14 and that was weird. But I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.