Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Motivation and determination for anything comes from within. One can not barrow it from someone else.

I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me

Just be yourself and live life, because no one knows with surety what we are doing here on Earth. Some might guess, but that doesn't mean their opinions are correct.

People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

I don't make any money.

I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.