Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Reality is all that which can affect one.

I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.