EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.

Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!

I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.