“There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose – if you embrace it you become one with it and you’ll be lived.”

It’s not the world that needs to change – it’s our consciousness we must raise.

Be a star not a diva!

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you.

Take a walk outside – it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart.

Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear but because of your love.

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

I’ve no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I’d rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

It’s not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our ‘education’. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be.

When we bring deep awareness to whatever’s bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long-standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.

There were so many different labels coming to me and they just didn’t seem right, but 300, they wanted me bad. It felt like a family.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

There’s something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It’s like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.