Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.