He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.