“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation — being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

In this world we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers.

While we wait for life, life passes.

There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

You become what you believe.

There are other sorrows in this world besides the sorrows of love.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Thousands of desires, each worth dying for; many of them I have realized, yet never enough.