Alicia Keys

One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m a driver… I love driving.. I’m driven.

The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…

I feel like it’s by design that I’m raising boys, like there’s a reason. I don’t like my sons watching Snow White. It’s totally misogynistic

They say that every child learns from their mother – it’s ingrained from babyhood.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

As I grow and I get older I’m realising more and more that there’s such a beautiful, sensual power that we have as women.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

For knowledge itself is power.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.