Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

Don't play with something you should cherish for life.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

You must know your part in the body of Christ and play it

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

The key is to do your own work.

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.