If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears.

If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.