Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

One of the sweetest things about success is that no one else has to believe in your abilities for your dream to come true.

The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.

It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.

I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.

Always be consistent.

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.

My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.