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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.

Trouble School Answer Exam
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Money Problem Rich Reinvest
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship Growth Plant Adversity
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Indulge Supposition Morality Caution
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True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Humility Intimacy God Bring
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Virtue Withstand Highest Bidder
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Science Investigates Religion Interprets
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How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him.

Expect Prepare God Often
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Think Comes Sense Discomfort
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Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.

Interpret Language Heart Hard
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Preventing Action Acknowledge Fear
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.

God Jesus Oneness Precursor. Realized
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I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

African Respect Relationship Great
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It’s not like I’m anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

Currency Country Understand Anti-China
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Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.

Love Bring Real Calm
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his life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

Perfectly Attribute Causes Pain
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So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT

Experience Often Connections Hardship
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This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner: God.

Permission World Break Hand
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People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board.

Connect People Great Friend
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Woman Inspired Totally Point
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Longer Sensation Style Perfection
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It is important that you not believe your own publicity. Be grateful for whatever praise you receive, but take it with a grain of salt.

Impotant Believe Own Publicity
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I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.

Business Along People Fun
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Love Sky Secret Fly
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I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.

Arrogant Course Couture Dignity
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If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!

African Body Colour Good
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Dare Love Rainbow Gold
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Busy Complete Down Ever
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

Come Fame Family Friends
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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

Funny Funny Thing People Rap
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We loved with a love that was more than love.

Love That With More
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love Smoke Make With
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Bring Doing Got Just
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

Change Conversation Could Here
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love True Destiny Find
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

First First One Life Like
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

Die Dude Glad Long
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I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you're spending time with that person that's special, I think that's a great Valentine's Day.

Anything Crazy Day Fancy
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

Any Exciting Flow Go
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Life with another person is always difficult.

Always Another Difficult Life
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The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

About Any Gallery Go
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We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

Educated Won Poorly Love
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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.

Fall Curse Transformation Begins
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When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.

Artist Fall Work Die
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If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.

God Seek Raise You
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