You are someone and you have a right to your life..

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation..

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understand….

I really fell in love with Africa..

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you.

you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it..

History is at once freedom and necessity..

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while..

I serve society by rocking!.

The great god Pan is dead..

It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart.

I'm just someone who observes a lot..

We all become what we pretend to be..

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived..

It is not what you do. It is that you do..

Leadership is more doing than dash..

To understand is to forgive..

To be is to stand for..

Things that don't exist do exist. They're just really fast..

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty..

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity..