Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.