One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.

I've discovered that every time I've reached a milestone I think I'm there, but there's another there waiting for me.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

I used to think that having lots of friends meant that you were happy. That's really not true. Having the right friends means that you're happy.

Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.

Stand up for your beliefs, and be different.

After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

Awake! Arise! And be exalted! Make your life a success!.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.