No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person’s true destiny.

What you must do, ” she continued, “you will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your time.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.