You are here to experience life, not to escape from it..

When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you vie….

Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever ….

Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution..

Live constructively and live optimistically..

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize..

There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover ….

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present..

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get on….

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

I've been through a lot as far as love..

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong..

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried..

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it..

We all see only that which we are trained to see..