Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

without the bombardment of thoughts, the truth will emerge through intuition.

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.

Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.

The changless part in you recognizes change

Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.

When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost.

The wind plays its own music.

It has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary.

Our supreme purpose here is to discard our false identity and realize the Atman within.

Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them

Everything we say or don't say makes an imprint on our child's heart.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

I was born a poor black child.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

We've got a lot of love here, and for me that's what family is all about.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.