Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.

You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.

The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.

Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.

There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.

Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232)

Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.

They tell us, love, that eternity awaits.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

What I like doing best is Nothing.

Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.