See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.

Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.

Always be friendly, always be kind, Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.

No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.

Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.

The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.

I'm going to move on, while carrying these feelings with me.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

Dreams don't have deadlines.

If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.