You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.