Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.

You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I learned to love despair.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.