I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

I'm not going to do it again, " Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am.

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.

In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer!