We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

I live to feel myself in danger.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.