The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

If you don’t walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person.

The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.