Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

True freedom lies within how and if we choose to fly, Perhaps I need to focus on flying,

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.