This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

E. M. Cioran

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Stefan Zweig

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Satchel Paige

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

William Shakespeare

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Percy Sutton

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Robert Fripp

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Samuel Butler

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Roger Moore

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Sydney J. Harris

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine of Hippo