Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.

The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

Genius is insanity right up until it works.

Do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don't.

There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.

Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.

I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid.

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.