Everyone's holding my happiness hostage.

The next time you feel really good, just keep feeling that way for the rest of your life.

We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

It's a hard job to become president.

I'll rap as long as people want to hear it.

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.