I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

I understand that if you're a kid in Indonesia, you need to smoke because you just got off work at the Nike factory.

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

I have to wear heels. There are some things that you just have to do.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.