Happiness is a feeling that can never be created without constantly reminding yourself about the things that are good in your life instead of the things that are bad about it.

Potential, " I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.