In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.

You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego.

Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.

If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.

Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.