Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.