If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.

Decide, first, to simply be.

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?