I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.

When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.