When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

...being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension...without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

I don't like looking outrageous.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.