Inspire greatness in others and it will be easier to inspire greatness in yourself.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.

If I had to just play 200 shows a year with the same set, there'd be a gun. In my mouth. With bullets in it.

I don't like to go out in general.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.