"Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all."

“To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a community which shares such a scorn and disrespect for the present society that it can embrace the whole bundle of rules and subvert them thereby, that should be our goal.”

“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...”

Source : Marcus Garvey (1988). “Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.189, Univ of California Press

“All you need are the words I give you here and your own honest efforts.”

“Love is like a roller coaster: When it's good you don't want to get off, and when it isn't, you can't wait to throw up. Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.”

“To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.”

“I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.”

Source : "Meet La Belle Anglaise" By Anna Pursglove, Evening Standard, December 15, 2000.

“I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it.”

“For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.”

Source : "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.