Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

Memory is like a box of chocolates. They disappear quickly.

Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

History repeats itself.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.