People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa.

A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.

You've got to keep things simple. Just identify what you need to do to launch, figure out what resources you need, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you!

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.