You have to be present, awake and happy now.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

Destiny isn't a path that any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest.

You’re treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn’t operate that way.

Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.

Sending everything they touch to the grave is what they do, but they don't see it as a grave mistake, yet.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.