When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

There is but one supremacy... and it remains known and unknown to it's human creation... of many hues, shapes and sizes.

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.

The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.

You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

Sitting and looking at obstacles gives you nothing but dark circles. Stride for solutions.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

If you are not satisfied with what is coming to you, start to work and change your mental attitude and mental states, and you will see a change gradually setting in.