"I highly recommend setting aside pockets of time during each day for solitude. You might have only five or ten minutes, but be alone and uninterrupted. And then sometime each week devote an extended time - at least one hour - to reconnect with your soul. How and when you do it is a very personal thing, but plan it because solitude doesn't happen on its own. Make it a priority in your life."

“If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.”

“Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.”

Source : "The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method".

“Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.”

“Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.”

Source : Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

“You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it,”

“Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.”

“Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.”

“I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.”

Source : Ta-Nehisi Coates (2008). “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood”, p.220, Spiegel & Grau