Alicia Keys

Everyone deserves an equal chance at success.

We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women all shades, all styles, in all the ways we were made. Inside of us everything blooms.

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 first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!

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

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.