If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Strategy is all about combining choices of what to do and what not to do into a system that creates the requisite fit between what the environment needs and what the company does.

It's not called cocaine any more. It's now referred to as Crack Classic.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.