If you lend the present, it will never be returned.

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

It was death by a thousand cuts

You can just enjoy music without understanding it, muusic is a universal language.

There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.

People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.