"Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work."

“I don't speak a lot when I get home, during the season. It's great. I just get to sit and listen. My wife gets to tell me whatever she wants to tell me, and I don't talk. I'm too exhausted to talk, so I'm a very good listener.”

“It takes a while to really love yourself...”

Source : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.

“Steve [Jobs] and I spent months getting to know each other before I joined Apple. He had no exposure to marketing other than what he picked up on his own. This is sort of typical of Steve. When he knows something is going to be important, he tries to absorb as much as he possibly can.”

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.”

Source : Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1991). “The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth”, p.35, Summit University Press

“I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.”

“Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave”

“All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.”