"For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern."

“Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.”

“I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.”

“During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning within it, a vision that extends to celestial regions of space and to interior depths of the human in a manner far exceeding the parameters of our world of technological confinement.”

“On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.”

“In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.”

Source : "Notorious actor Derek Luke talks about playing P Diddy and trying to find the human side of Sean Combs". www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2009.

“We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.”

“I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.”

“All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.”