An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.

Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.

This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.