“Reading is an essential tool to keep the mind sharp and the imagination running wild & free.”

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father’s footsteps.

Photographs bring back the memories.

The last thing my father told me was: ‘On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don’t let me down.’ A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I don’t believe in other people’s ideas. I have my own ideas.

It’s important to make sure you move your body every day. 

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

Love is my religion.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It’s part of our culture.

Everywhere you go, my love will follow.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I’m glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I’m glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.