All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.

The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

Look upon the world with wonder.

There is no point reminding you the memories you don't remember.

Life is a game, you can't afford to lose.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.