Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.
The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.
It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once you've started something better that's working right, then it's pretty easy to let the first one go.
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.