A mission which becomes a commercial concern may end by ceasing to be a mission

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

Life is filled with meaning as soon as Jesus Christ enters into it.

If everything is mission, nothing is mission.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire.

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

Product is always king.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.