When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

She had this way of always finding the good and believing in everything despite all she had seen.

Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

The proud man is forsaken of God.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.