No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

We’ll have to go back there one day, the both of us. You can show my all your favorite places.”“Silly man, ” I laughed and pulled his face down to mine. “You are my favorite place.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.