Don't hang with negative people. They will pull you down with them. Instead, invite them into your light and together you will both shine strong.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue. Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Lord, today I ask for a renewed sense of purpose in my smaller daily choices, knowing that how I spend each moment is how I live my life. Every choice matters.

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.