Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

Faith gives us the courage to endure every circumstance.

I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

One thing that remains consistent throughout anything I do in life really is remaining true to myself and trusting my gut instincts.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.